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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 5720156" data-attributes="member: 151">I think someone mentioned that.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I don't think we're disagreeing, here.  Like you, no one in my gaming group discusses 'GNS' theory....but I've heard those conversations being had a local gaming conventions, where people sit down and talk for hours on end about games.  I do know that people in my group do have conversations about character builds, about action economies, about hit points versus healing surges about game-flow and alignment influence on narrative and whatever else interests us in the margins between game time.I agree with Hussar that I have conversations here I would never, ever have with my group.  I also have conversations here that I have all the time with my group.  The only core difference I see here between the conversations I have on ENWorld and that I have had at Gencon, my FLGS or in my own game is more a question of the people and the free time involved to do so.  Before the internet, you'd have to go to a con or subscribe to an APA to have these discusions...but I think it has much more to do with the format and nature of message boards than the people involved.  In the same way I normally don't have long-winded discussions about the fight-mechanics in Arkham City or the sexual politics of certain comic books in person, but do online because of the nature of the format and interaction, the discussions I see on ENWorld are, to me, things I have because of the forum's nature, not the people who attend it.</blockquote>

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